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December 2022

    • 14:00 to 15:30
    • Institute's Colloquium

    Between Convertibility and Perversion: Aviation, Atomic Energy, and the Discourses of Technological Internationalism

    Organizer(s)
    Address

    Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany

    Room
    Main Conference Room & Online
    Contact and Registration

    The Institute's Colloquium series Science Diplomacy and Science in Times of War will take place in person at the MPIWG and online, and is open to all. Academics, students, and members of the public are all welcome to attend, listen, and participate in discussion.

    For online participation, please register at this email address: MPIWG_IC@MPIWG-BERLIN.MPG.DE and we will send you the updated zoom link for the colloquium.

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    • 19:00 to 20:30
    • Reading Group

    "Childbirth Technologies"— Reading Group

    Organizer(s)
    Address

    Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany

    Room
    Zoom/Online Meeting Platform
    Contact and Registration

    For registration or any questions about the meetings please contact ideoliveiradornelas@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.

    Zoom link will be provided via request ideoliveiradornelas@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.

    About This Series

    The monthly reading and works-in-progress group will investigate childbirth technologies across regions, cultures, and time periods. Guiding questions include how technologies emerge from childbirth-related practices and how practices change reproductive bodies and obstetrical tools. We will discuss our own work-in-progress as well as secondary literature, depending on the interests of the participants. One focus will be on the comparative epistemic and socio-material relations of these technologies. Instead of understanding knowledge and object as separate issues, we explore how they emerge together and what kind of relations are enacted through them.

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    • 15:00 to 16:30
    • Seminar

    Adaptation and Norming of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) in Norway: 1970s to the Present

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    • 11:00 to 12:30
    • Colloquium

    Between Transcultural Disease and International Diagnostic Concept: The International Pilot Study of Schizophrenia (1965-1973)

    Organizer(s)
    Address

    Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany

    Contact and Registration

    Please register by email to Birgit Nemec: birgit.nemec@charite.de.

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    • 14:00 to 15:30
    • Lecture

    Ascent of Chinese Universities in World Rankings—Global Ambitions, Local Governance?

    Address

    Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany

    Room
    Zoom/Online Meeting Platform
    Contact and Registration

    Please register at the following link: 
    https://zoom.us/j/95306568300?pwd=WE9kdVp0YUluOVFPdkR2eHlJV2NOUT09

    This event is part of the LMRG & BCCN Lecture Series "China—The New Science Superpower?" For further information about the series, specific sessions, or questions concerning registration, please contact office-ahlers@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.

    About This Series

    China’s push to become a leading science power is unprecedented in its speed, scope and, arguably, success. Reactions to China’s rise in global science are dichotomous: some anticipate that science made in China may come to dominate global academia while others deem it impossible to achieve scientific leadership under an authoritarian regime. A focus on rankings and statistics alone is apparently not enough to grasp the origins, characteristics, and the possible futures of China as a science superpower.

    This monthly lecture series will bring together fresh empirical insights and intriguing theoretical reflections about the development of the science system in the People’s Republic of China and its global integration. Representing a variety of social science perspectives, our guest speakers will explore the evolution of Chinese science policy, interactions of societal norms and values and academia in the PRC, factors that enable or constrain scientific innovation, the global reception of scientific output and investment from China, the securitization of international collaboration, and much more.

     

    MaLiang

     

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    • 12:00 to 13:30

    Digital Humanities Brown Bag Lunch

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    • 16:00 to 20:00
    • Memorial Event

    Klaus Heinrich Memorial Event

    Address

    MPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany

    Room
    Main Conference Room
    Contact and Registration

    We look forward to seeing you on site. We ask for advance registration: rennoffice@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

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    • 12:00 to 16:15
    • Workshop

    Typologies of East Asian Maps in a Global Perspective

    Organizer(s)
    Address

    Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany

    Room
    Zoom/Online Meeting Platform
    Contact and Registration

    This event is open to all. Please register via this link: https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/en/register-workshop33.  

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    • 14:00 to 15:30
    • Colloquium

    Open Science in University–Industry Research Collaboration in China: State of Affairs at the Policy-Level and Preliminary Evidence From the Field

    Organizer(s)
    Address

    Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany

    Room
    Room 215/Online
    Contact and Registration

    For further information about the LMRG Colloquium series, specific sessions, or registration (a limited number of places are available), please contact Dieu Linh Bui Dao.

    About This Series

    The LMRG Colloquium is a venue for members and guests of the Lise Meitner Research Group, "China in the Global System of Science," to share work in progress on an ongoing basis. It is an opportunity to raise questions, discuss methodological challenges, or get feedback on preliminary conclusions. We aim to create a supportive atmosphere that combines rigorous criticism with genuine curiosity. 

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November 2022

    • 15:30 to 17:00
    • Workshop

    Animal Materials as Multiple: Historical Problems in "Reading Animals"

    Organizer(s)
    Address

    Harnack Haus, Ihnestraße 16-20, 14195 Berlin, Germany

    Room
    Lynen Room
    Contact and Registration

    lonaga@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de or ideoliveiradornelas@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

    This is a closed event. Audience seating is limited.

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    • 13:30 to 15:00
    • Roundtable

    Word and Image: The Role of Representation in the Transmission of Astral Knowledge

    Address

    Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany

    Room
    Room 265 & Online
    Contact and Registration

    Attendance is mandatory for Department III members. We additionally have room for ten guests and welcome those who wish to join us from other Departments and Research Groups. Please register in advance by emailing EVENT_DEPT3@MPIWG-BERLIN.MPG.DE with subject heading "RSVP Dept III Colloquium" and the date of the colloquium you wish to attend.

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    • Workshop

    Experiencing Nature through Old and New Epistemes around the Globe

    Organizer(s)
    Address

    Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina e. V. – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften, Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina e. V. – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften, Jägerberg 1, 06108 Halle (Saale), Germany

    Contact and Registration

    For registration please contact: twietecha@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

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    • 16:00 to 17:30
    • Seminar

    Animal Intelligence and Animal Character in Aristotle’s "Historia Animalium"

    Address

    Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany

    Contact and Registration

    The sessions will take place monthly on Fridays at 16:00–17:30 in an online or hybrid format. For more details, please contact us at science_conversation@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.

    About This Series

    The monthly seminar "Early Science in Conversation" invites experts from different fields and with varied perspectives to examine the ways in which science defines itself and what the history of science is as a discipline. We will especially encourage collective reasoning about conceptions of science and the methodologies with which we inquire about our sources. Among other things, we will reflect on what have been regarded as premodern scientific and proto-scientific practices, their methods, and their techniques. This interdisciplinary encounter seeks to deepen the history of science’s awareness of its own agenda and to open up new pathways. The conversational format, along with lectures and discussions of work in progress, aims to build fruitful connections across the intellectual spectrum of the MPIWG.

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    • 09:00 to 10:00
    • Colloquium

    Magnifying Insect Histories

    • Dept. III
    • Several Speakers
    • Salka'Tuwa Bondoc Mafla
    • Dominik Hünniger
    • Diogo de Carvalho Cabral
    • Frederico Freitas
    • Luísa Reis-Castro
    • Jude Philp
    • Chakanetsa Mavhunga
    • Christian Reiß
    • Xiaoya Zhan
    • Ivy Yeh
    • Leah Lui-Chivizhe
    Organizer(s)
    Address

    Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany

    Room
    Zoom/Online Meeting Platform
    Contact and Registration

    This is event is closed to the public.

    About This Series

    These meetings facilitate discussions that take into account how insects/bugs/critters/species have been integral for knowledge production cutting across diverse political, social, and aesthetic thought, or practices. Insects offer us concrete, material ways to rethink the legacies or vestiges of disciplinary thinking and the practices by which different types of knowledge are created, owned, and used. By encouraging cross-disciplinary collaborations among scholars who employ a variety of sources concerning insects, a dialogue is advanced that stitches together different practices, subfields, and languages or geographies. In doing so, the topic of “insect histories” is addressed with mind to understand the social, political, economic,  and epistemic significance of tiny animals encourages the participants to challenge the “normal”/dominant contours of the history of science to engage with non-human agencies. The resulting essays from this series will aspire to identify ways to think about insects as processes and multitudes, and as connective agents between and among disciplines, cultures, languages, and other norms.

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    • Lecture

    Being between Scylla and Charybdis: Designing Animal Studies in Neurosciences and Psychiatry—Too Ethical to Be Ethical?

    Organizer(s)
    Address

    Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany

    Room
    Zoom/Online Meeting Platform
    Contact and Registration

    The seminar series is open to all. To receive the zoom link, please email Birgitta von Mallinckrodt (OFFICEKEUCK@MPIWG-BERLIN.MPG.DE).

    About This Series

    This research seminar is hosted by the Bordeaux-Berlin WORKING GROUP ON TRANSLATING VALIDITY IN PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH and brings together historians, philosophers, psychiatrists, and biomedical researchers.

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    • 10:30 to 11:45
    • Lecture

    Towards a Systems-Based Historical Science

    Organizer(s)
    Address

    Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany

    Room
    Main Conference Room & Online
    Contact and Registration

    Please let us know if you would like to attend: rennoffice@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

    This is a hybrid event. The online event is accessible via the following link: https://zoom.us/j/95752530254

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    • 14:00 to 15:30
    • Institute's Colloquium

    Pugwash Scientists: Between Science and Diplomacy in the Cold War

    Organizer(s)
    Address

    Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany

    Room
    Main Conference Room & Online
    Contact and Registration

    The Institute's Colloquium series Science Diplomacy and Science in Times of War will take place in person at the MPIWG and online, and is open to all. Academics, students, and members of the public are all welcome to attend, listen, and participate in discussion.

    For online and in-person participation in the Institute’s Main Conference Room, please register at this email address: mpiwg_ic@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.

    Please note in the subject of your email if you are registering for the Zoom meeting of if you would want to come in person.

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    • 12:00 to 13:30

    Digital Humanities Brown Bag Lunch

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    • 19:00 to 20:30
    • Reading Group

    "Childbirth Technologies"— Reading Group

    Organizer(s)
    Address

    Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany

    Room
    Zoom/Online Meeting Platform
    Contact and Registration

    For registration or any questions about the meetings please contact ideoliveiradornelas@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.

    Zoom link will be provided via request ideoliveiradornelas@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.

    About This Series

    The monthly reading and works-in-progress group will investigate childbirth technologies across regions, cultures, and time periods. Guiding questions include how technologies emerge from childbirth-related practices and how practices change reproductive bodies and obstetrical tools. We will discuss our own work-in-progress as well as secondary literature, depending on the interests of the participants. One focus will be on the comparative epistemic and socio-material relations of these technologies. Instead of understanding knowledge and object as separate issues, we explore how they emerge together and what kind of relations are enacted through them.

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    • 14:00 to 16:00
    • Seminar

    Interference Patterns of Religion and Science in Werner Heisenberg’s Popular Writings

    Address

    Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany

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